Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO VIRGINIA ON HER BIRTHDAY, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poet's Biography First Line: Your past is past and never to return Last Line: I breathe this blessing, and I pray this prayer. Subject(s): Birthdays; Blessings | ||||||||
Your past is past and never to return, The long bright yesterday of life's first years, Its days are dead -- cold ashes in an urn. Some held for you a chalice for your tears, And other days strewed flowers upon your way. They all are gone beyond your reach, And thus they are beyond my speech. I know them not, so that your first gone times To me unknown, lie far beyond my rhymes. But I can bless your soul and aims to-day, And I can ask your future to be sweet, And I can pray that you may never meet With any cross, you are too weak to bear. Virginia, Virgin name, and may you wear Its virtues and its beauties, fore'er and fore'er. I breathe this blessing, and I pray this prayer. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PLASTIC BEATITUDE by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR TO ANGELIC CIRCUMSTANCES by KENNETH KOCH PARADISE LIGHTNING DAZZLE: 6. YES by GREGORY ORR HONEY DRIPPING FROM THE COMB by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY DAUGHTER O' MINE by DAISY DEAN BUTLER VERSES DESIGNED FOR AN INFIRMARY by JOHN BYROM TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. AH! BLESSED IS HE by EDWARD CARPENTER SENTINEL SONGS: 1 by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN |
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